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Friday, 17 June 2016

Rainbow Rose QAL Week 3

Look what the postman brought yesterday!

A pretty pink parcel with my prize from the first week of the Rainbow Rose QAL - a lovely fat quarter bundle with a sweet note from Amy:

Thank you Ruth from Modern Quilters Ireland for organizing the QAL and thank you Love Fabric shop for the wonderful prize! This is Cotton Candy collection by Dashwood Studio and it has lovely colors (the dark one is actually more of a deep teal, though in the photo it looks more like navy) and fun modern prints. I am now thinking hard about a design that will do it justice. It will have to be something modern (and probably something Irish - do you think Irish chain is too obvious to consider?)))

This week's assignment was piecing the corners. I stuck to my layout with a minor change - having identified a lack of pastels I bought a piece of light yellow and another of light green (at a sale - bingo!), so I was able to use them. I am so glad that in this week's "theory" Ruth tackled the problem of value, exactly what I am struggling with)).

So, these are my blocks (sorry for the photo quality, it was raining on and off the whole day, I did my best shooting them indoors):

And this is how it all looks together at the moment, the outer blocks, the two lightest circles in my value gradation: